Pentagon Whistleblower Admits Photo of UFO Mothership Was Fake

A Pentagon UFO whistleblower has admitted something that often feels unprecedented for anyone involved in the government: that he was wrong.

In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, ex-intelligence official Luis "Lue" Elizondo owned up to sharing a photo purporting to show a UFO that he later learned was fake.

"A photo that was provided to me by a friend in Government a couple of years ago was presented by me two days ago at our engagement in Philadelphia," the former head of the Defense Department's secret UFO tracking program wrote, referencing a private event in the city of brotherly love that took place earlier in the week.

In a clip posted by UFO journalist Steven Greenstreet, Elizondo was seen presenting in Philadelphia on a so-called "mothership" purported to have been seen over Bucharest, the Romanian capital, in 2022.

"Guess what we caught in Romania in 2022?" he told attendees per a video taken from inside the event and posted to X. "By the way, [the photo was taken from] the US Embassy."